There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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